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I went through the trouble of downloading and play CoD Ghosts, so no one else has to. For the unacquainted: It's garbage. Not worth your time or money.

To be specific, it's a technical mess. The game might be decent if they fixed the sporadic framerate drops, corrected the muddy image quality, and added more PC-centric options. As it is though, it's unplayable. People weren't kidding when they said it was really unoptimized.

This is coming from someone who enjoyed Black Ops II. I'd rather play that.
 
My only complaint with CoD: Ghosts is that it crashes like effing hell on my machine. Never had a problem with COD: MW 1 through 4, but this one crashed a few times an hour when I played it.
 
Dankk said:
I went through the trouble of downloading and play CoD Ghosts, so no one else has to. For the unacquainted: It's garbage. Not worth your time or money.
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Well, admittedly I'm only 77 minutes into it (made it out of the stadium), but I've had a good time with it so far.

But my expectations are low.

I enjoy having the dog (!), I enjoyed the remote sniper, the graphics are passable ( colors are a bit muted ), and I haven't had any technical issues beyond a 1 second audio stutter when a new mission is loaded.
 
CuriousMike said:
Well, admittedly I'm only 77 minutes into it (made it out of the stadium), but I've had a good time with it so far.

But my expectations are low.

I enjoy having the dog (!), I enjoyed the remote sniper, the graphics are passable ( colors are a bit muted ), and I haven't had any technical issues beyond a 1 second audio stutter when a new mission is loaded.
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Ah, I should clarify that I've only played the multiplayer. Haven't played singleplayer (it isn't part of the free weekend) but in it's defense, I do hear the campaign is quite fun.
 
I tried it and hate it. First off, they lock the graphics to look like CoD 2 or worse. Second, it lags like a mother. Third, Every Killcam showed me dying, THEN I got hurt. It's all terrible, it can go to hell. The lag just makes it unplayable.
 
Dankk said:
Trials: Evolution is an outrageously fun game and everyone should buy it.
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I would like to counter that with FVCK UBI. Their usoftware sh!t makes this game unplayable and annoyingly slow. It is the epitome of what's wrong with double DRM and the "gotta be logged in" to play a f'ng single player game.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, they've make Rocksmith 2014 not nearly as intrusive or annoying and very tolerable. They patched a lot of what is annoying in Trials out of Rocksmith.
 
For those drooling over the Ubisoft games, keep in mind some require their DRM running in the background, and some do not. Check first.
If its not clear from Steams info, check around online.
 
shortylickens said:
Dude, its been on sale many times over the past FOUR YEARS!

Come on now.
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I haven't wanted it until recently 😛

I decided the other week that even though I didn't get into Fallout 3 on my xbox, I'd probably like it on my PC (playing with a keyboard/mouse + mods)... but I can't bring myself to pay full price for something I basically already own.
 
Lil Frier said:
And this is why I'll never buy a Ubisoft game on PC.
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I have a couple of ubisoft games that were bundled with hardware. I haven't really looked into the DRM side, but I notice that I _really_ had very little patience for the whole uplay nonsense. I have zero inclination to actually buy anything through it.

Strikes me that Steam get a huge advantage from being the first big digital distributor, that almost everyone used first. I'm OK with Steam (their sales of course were what got over my distrust of digital distribution - does anyone ever buy anything NOT on sale from them?). But dealing with, and getting familiar with the quirks of, more than one such platform is just far too much bother as far as I'm concerned.
 
It's less about being first and more about being first by so much time. People built substantial libraries of games on Steam, and it's inconvenient to need a program for each publisher and have multiple IDs to handle your games. Ubisoft did it a LITTLE better in making Uplay a secondary DRM to Steam, so you can keep your library in a big bunch, I guess.

The other thing is how the competing distribution systems are always publisher-specific. If Origin or Uplay was actually like Steam, it would be different. Instead, they cater to EA and Ubisoft exclusively, so they're specialized software whose primary feature is to annoy and inconvenience gamers.
 
loki8481 said:
I haven't wanted it until recently 😛

I decided the other week that even though I didn't get into Fallout 3 on my xbox, I'd probably like it on my PC (playing with a keyboard/mouse + mods)... but I can't bring myself to pay full price for something I basically already own.
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Make sure you get a UI mod that increases the stuff you can see.

And Bunker 72, it has inventory sorting for every item.
 
SC blacklist up to $38.99. Not worth it for me at that price. Guess I missed the 66% off deal. I'll wait for the next price drop.
 
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